Creeping Illiteracy Across Canada
It seems literacy isn’t a top priority for hewers of wood and drawers of water. Literacy skills that a student develops in school can be lost in jobs where muscle…
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Bill Maher Shows He’s Still a Pompous Bag of Hot Air
I caught a little of Bill Maher’s RealTime season opener last night. I used to be a regular follower until Maher’s ego got the best of him as he launched…
Saturday Afternoon Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Owen Jones points out how attempts to primarily blame the public for the spread of COVID serve primarily to distract from unsafe workplace…
Musical interlude
Metric – Gold Guns Girls
Pfizer Tells Canada, "Sorry." Remember When Canada Was a World Leader in Developing Vaccines?
Just as the number of Covid-19 infections is rising, the promised supply of Pfizer’s vaccine is turning into just that – a promise. It seems the American giant is having…
A Trip Down Memory Lane
Theresa May was a truly mediocre prime minister of the United Kingdom. She was weak, hesitant and grasping. Yet, of all her sins, perhaps the worst was her decision, weeks…
Republicans, Fearing for Their Lives, Voted Against Impeachment
Were Republican representatives afraid to vote to impeach Donald Trump? The Washington Post’s Jennifer Rubin writes that House Republicans have been successfully extorted. “Rep. Jason Crow (D-Colo.) in a recent…
Have We Become Addicted to "Sordid"?
How much more mileage are we going to get out of the rise and fall of Donald Trump and his Merry Band of Grifters? Does part of you sort of…
Rudy, You Meat Head!!
It’s the perfect final act of a nightmare presidency. Last Wednesday when he was riling up his Gullibillies to storm the Capitol, Donald Trump had high praise for his own…
How Long Can the GOP Live Within It’s Own Skin?
For some time, Old School Republicans have argued that their party has gone too far, it’s beyond redemption. Their solution – burn it to the ground and start over. It’s…
Trump as Comic Relief
There’s a word you don’t hear everyday – “ghastly.” That, however, is the prognosis for the future of humankind in the summary of a report published today in the journal,…
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Bruce Arthur calls out Doug Ford’s choice to blame his constituents rather than himself and his government for a gross lack of leadership…
Tuesday Night Cat Blogging
Curled-up cats.
Voltaire on Trump
Those Who Can Make You Believe Absurdities, Can Make You Commit Atrocities. Isn’t that the essence of Donald Trump?
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – The Globe and Mail’s editorial board asks whether Doug Ford will again fall painfully short in responding to the public health threat…
Give Trump Enough Rope…
The Attorney General of Washington, D.C. – an elected position since 2015 – has announced that he will be investigating Donald Trump for inciting last Wednesday’s mob attack on the…
Monday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Roger McNamee argues that online platforms need to be held to account for their role in fomenting political violence. And Rebecca Traister writes…
On privileged positions
It’s bad enough that Saskatchewan is governed by a party whose foundational principle is that a wealthy person’ vacation home is more important that your life. But it certainly takes…
Twisting the Night Away …
I won’t waste much time directly addressing the attempted coup that took place in Washington, D.C. on Wednesday this past week. Others have already covered it in considerable depth, and…